Professor Fiona Hackney MA (Edin) Fine Art, MA (RCA/V&A) Design History, PhD UoL Modern History

Externally-funded Projects:

2023: NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Award: ‘Re-making Menswear: Crafting a modern Indian heritage model for inclusive, conscious style-fashion-dress’ in collaboration with partner Craftspace. Prof Hackney PI. 80K approx. Named student Lokesh Ghai to start Sept 2024 (Full time). 

2022-23: ‘Making Care Visible (MCV): co-making care with, in and through communities’ – Engagement and research UKRI call: ‘Engage the public with the future of health and care in the UK’. Prof Hackney PI, Dr Lynn Setterington (Design) Co-I. Partners: Innovation Health Manchester, Arts Well, and Craftspace. 40K (unsuccessful)

2019-2021: ‘RAV: Raising Awareness of Value: Women and Crafts in India’ British Council, Making Futures, India (20K total 10K to MMU) Shalini Gupta Pearl Academy India.  Prof Hackney academic lead MMU.

2017–2019: AHRC Designing a Sensibility for Sustainable Clothing Choices: Prof Hackney Co-I with Exeter University leading. £450,000 in total. (AH/R000123/1)

2017-2019: AHRC Maker-Centric: building place-based, co-making communities (100k) Follow on Funding for Impact and Engagement (100k) Follow on Funding for Impact and Engagement, Prof Hackney PI. (AH/P009638/1)

2016: The Maker Movement: 50Kwork package for D4D: Disability and Community: Dis/engagement, dis/enfranchisement, dis/parity and dissent (AH/N004108/1): disability and alienation. Disability, creative making and performance. 1 April 2016-Jan 2017.

2016: AHRC Connected Communities Festival 2016: Community Futures and Utopias. Making-Centric: Community Co-speculation, Prototyping Future Thinking as Living Heritage.

Augmented Award £15,000 plus supplementary award £5000. D. Fig, Craftspace: PI, Dr Hackney Co-I. (March-October 2016)

2015: Protopolitics (£15,000) competitive funding from AHRC-funded Protopublics Social Design Sprint Workshop to develop prototype methodology connecting older people and policy makers through design fictions. Dr Hackney Co-I, with partners at Lancaster, Cardiff and Brighton Universities, and partners: Age UK, and the All-Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group (APDIG) (June-September 2015). The pilot leads to an opportunity to bid for a larger funded project.

2015: Future Thinking for Social Living (£9,200) R&I funding Falmouth University Pilot Project with Coastline Housing & Arts for Health Cornwall (March – June)

2015: Making Soundwaves: Community Voices as Heritage Activism, AHRC Connected Communities Festival (£9,000 +) engagement project with Tate St Ives (March-September)

2014-15: Dr Hackney P.I. (£10,000) #wellMAKING: Craftivist Garden: 1 July 2014 – 30 January 2015 working with Arts for Health Cornwall, Voluntary Arts England and Craftivist Collective, this AHR-funded activist project raises consciousness about craft and wellbeing and was developed from the Beyond the Tookit Symposium (below). It is nationwide and will conclude with an event in London.

2014: March-July 1-2: Connected Communities Festival, Cardiff. Dr Hackney P.I. project researchers and community partners received funding (£44,323.00) to run a series of events and breakout workshops including: Crafts Bazaar installation; two breakout workshops; films; posters and graphics; ‘Killing Time’ performance (music and knitters) and Craftivist Garden #wellmaking launch (see above (March 2014-July 2014):

2014: Beyond the Toolkit: Understanding & Evaluating Crafts Praxis for Health and Wellbeing, 19-20 February, Falmouth University: AHRC-funded Supplementary Knowledge Exchange/Dissemination Event (£10,000: June 2013-March 2014);a collaboration between Arts for Health, Cornwall and Falmouth Universityto explore the benefits of craft and creative making for health and well-being. The Symposium included national and international speakers, workshops led by creative practitioners and an exhibition of work by community groups in a range of arts for health settings.

2013: Dr Fiona Hackney and colleagues received funding (£12,025.50) to run a workshop, create a film and exhibition materials as part of the AHRC Connected Communities Showcase events in London: ‘Crafting Communities: The Politics of Making, Craft, Participatory Engagement, Health and Wellbeing’ at AHRC Connected Communities Showcase Event, London 12-13 March.  : http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Watch-and-Listen/Pages/Connected-Communities-Showcase-Event.aspx   and Edinburgh: Co-producing CARE: Community asset-based research & enterprise: Dr Fiona Hackney, Deidre Figereido Craftspace, Hannah Maughan, Bryony Stokes. http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/Connected-Communities-Edinburgh-Showcase.aspx

2013-2014: Co-producing CARE: Community Asset-based Research & Enterprise, AHRC standard application (£125,000).  Dr Hackney P.I. Bid in collaboration with Northumbria University and Craftspace, Birmingham, follows Connected Communities Summit.(Feb 2013 – June 2014). https://cocreatingcare.wordpress.com/the-project/

2012-2015: Research Studentship: AHRC: Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) ‘Use Your Hands for   Happiness’: Crafts practice as a means of building community assets, health and well-being’ in partnership with Arts for Health Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (AFHC). Dr Hackney P.I., Co- I.s, Dr Nicola Thomas & AFHC Director Jayne Howard. (£54,000). http://www.artsforhealthcornwall.org.uk/news/use-your-hands-for-happiness

2012: Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Grant (£100,000) ‘Community-Appropriated Research Model’ (CARM). P.I., Dr. Anne Light, Co-I., Dr. Hackney.

2011: AHRC Network Grant (£34,000) for ‘Connecting Craft and Communities’. P.I., Dr. Nicola Thomas, Co-I.s, Dr. Hackney and Dr. Bunnell. https://connectingcraftcommunities.wordpress.com/

2010: AHRC Project Development Proposal (£15,000).‘Genealogies of Place’. P.I., Professor Hamish Fyfe, Co-I.s., Dr. Hackney, Dr. Frohlich, and Steve Thompson.

2008-15: AHRC Research Studentship (open competition) £49,024. ‘Reconstruction Deconstructed: A study of post-war housing in Plymouth’.

2008-13: Three European Social Fund (ESF) Studentships totalling £180,000. ‘The Mingei and its Transnational Reception: A Comparative Study of Studio Pottery in South West England and South West Canada’; ‘Performing Memory: Art, Community, Archive and Place’; and ‘Bartram Hiles (1872-1927) Art, Commerce & Disability’.

2008-10: Heritage Lottery Funded (HLF) project, ‘Memory Bay: The Art Community in St. Ives, Cornwall’. Jointly developed with Tate St Ives, St Ives Archive, Leach Pottery and Porthmeor Studios (£50,000). Dr. Hackney was a member of the development team and steering committee.

2008: Design History Society (DHS) grant (£1,500) to support keynote speakers, Professor Bruno Latour, Professor Jeremy Myerson and designer Jan Konings at ‘Networks of Design’ conference, Falmouth University

2008: Higher Education Academy grant (£3,000) to support research on design pedagogy at ‘Networks of Design’ conference, FU.

2001: Design History Society Research Award (£1,000) to support research on print culture and women’s magazines.

1998-99: University of the Arts London (UAL) Research award (£1,500) to support research on print culture and women’s magazines.

Hackney, F. Women’s Magazines and the Feminine Imagination: Opening up a New World for Women in Interwar Britain. Bloomsbury Academic, Media. (in process)

Fashion Forward: Evolution, Resilience & Responsibility in the Fashion Sector. Chapter for Edited collection (Dr Steve Walls, Newcastle University). University of Chicago Press/Intellect.  (in process)

Hackney, F., D. Figueiredo, M. Loveday, ‘Better Together’: Co-creating living heritage, community assets and enterprise’. Chapter for The Craft Economy: Makers, Markets and Meaning, edited collection Bloomsbury: Dr Nicola Thomas & Professor Susan Luckman (in press).

Saunders, C. Griffin, I., Hackney, F., Barbieri, A., Hill, K. J., West, J., Willett, J. (2024) ‘A Social Practices Approach to Encouraging Sustainable Clothing Choices’, Sustainability. 16(3), 1282; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16031282

Hackney F. and Setterington, L. (2023) ‘Crafting with a purpose: how the ‘work’ of the workshop makes, promotes, and embodies well-being’ in Hackney, F., Rana, M., Gant, N., Hill, K. (Eds.) ‘Well-making & making-well: craft, design, and everyday creativity for health and well-being’, Special Issue Journal of Applied Arts & Health Vol 13(3), pp: 307-324.

Hackney, F. (2023) ‘Interview with Angela Maddock’ in Hackney, F., Rana, M., Gant, N., Hill, K. (Eds.) ‘Well-making & making-well: craft, design, and everyday creativity for health and well-being’, Special Issue Journal of Applied Arts & Health Vol 13(3), pp: 417-426.

Hackney, F., Onions, L., Rogers, R., Figueiredo, D., Loveday, M. (2022) ‘Maker-centricity and ‘edge-places of creativity’: CARE-full Making in a CARE-less World’, special issue on race and craft 

Hackney, F., Onions, L., Rogers, R., Figueiredo, D., Loveday, M. (2022) ‘Maker-centricity and ‘edge-places of creativity’: CARE-full Making in a CARE-less World’, special issue on race and craft economies K. Patel, R. Dudrah (Eds) European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol, 25(6) pp:1572-1596. Hackney lead-author. Article analyses material from two AHRC-funded projects (Hackney PI)

Hackney, F., Bigham, J. (2022) ‘A Cottage of One’s Own: making modern women through word and image in interwar women’s homemaking magazines’, special issue on word and image Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Vol 13(1), pp: 103-141.

Willett, J., Saunders, C, Hackney, F. Hill, K. (2022) ‘The affective economy and fast fashion: Materiality, embodied learning and developing a sensibility for sustainable clothing’, Journal of Material Culture, Vol 27: 3, pp. 219-237. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/13591835221088524

Hackney, F., Saunders, S., Willett, J., Hill, K. (2022) ‘Changing the World Not Just our Wardrobes: A Sensibility for Sustainable Clothing, Care and Quiet Activism’ in E. Paulicelli, V. Manlow, E. Wissinger (Eds) Routledge Fashion Companion, London & NY: Routledge. pp. 111-121.

Hackney, F. (2020) ‘Beyond Utility. Pushing the Frontiers in Women’s Magazines: Modern Woman 1943-1951’ in L. Brake and J. Hollows (Eds.) Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture 1940s-2000s. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp: 366-384.

Hackney, F. et al (2020) ‘Stitching a Sensibility for Sustainable Clothing: Quiet activism, affect and community agency’ in eds. E. Shercliff & A. Twigger Holroyd Journal of Arts & Communities Vol 10 Issue 1, pp: 35-52.

Hackney, F. et al (2020) ‘Talking Textiles, Making Value: Catalysing Fashion, Dress, and Textiles Heritage in the Midlands’ Textile Design Research and Practice Vol 8 Issue 1 February 2020 pp: 84-111.

Hackney, F., C. Saunders, J. Willett, K. Hill (2019) ‘Designing a Sensibility for Sustainable Clothing (S4S): Affective Activism’ in P. Rodgers (ed) Design Research for Change. Lancaster: Lancaster University Press & Arts & Humanities Research Council pp. 151-167.

Hackney, F. (2019) ‘U is for Use-less-ness’ in P. Rodgers et al An Illustrated A to Z for the Design of Care. Lancaster: University of Lancaster.

Hackney, F & S. Morton (2019) ‘How Might We Best Bespoke Care?’ Ed. P. Rodgers, C. Bremner, G. Innella Does Design Care…?! Lancaster: University of Lancaster pp. 246-261.

F. Hackney, C. Saunders, K. Hill (2019) ‘Jack’s Jumper: Designing a Sensibility for Sustainable Clothing Communities’ IFFTI 2019, Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University pp. 1-16. https://fashioninstitute.mmu.ac.uk/iffti2019/papers/

Hackney, F., Rogers, G., Onions, L., Figueiredo, F., Milovanovic, J.(2018) ‘Being Maker-Centric: Making as Method for Self-Organising and Achieving Craft Impact in Local Communities and Economies’. In E. Bell, G. Mangia, S. Taylor and M. L. Toraldo (Eds.) The Organization of Craft Work: Identities, Meanings, and Materiality. New York: Routledge.  https://doi.org/10.4324/978131520586

Rana, M. & Hackney, F. (2018) Making & Material Affect. From Learning & Teaching to Sharing & Listening. (2018) Ed Ross Prior, Using Art as Research in Learning & Teaching: Multidisciplinary approaches across the arts. Bristol: Intellect. pp. 147-161.  

 Hackney, F. (2018) Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain: The Interwar Period. Co-edited collection: Dr Catherine Clay, Dr Fiona Hackney, Professor Maria Di Cenzo, Dr Barbara Green, Edinburgh University Press. Sections include fashion and domestic periodicals, girls’ magazines, feminist and literary periodicals. Includes co-written introduction, single authored section: ‘Reimagining Homes, Housewives, and Domesticity p. 207, and single authored chapter: ‘Woman Appeal. A New Rhetoric of Consumption: Women’s Domestic Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s pp. 294-309.

Hackney, F. (2017) ‘The Making Affect: a Co-created Community Methodology.’ Research into Design for Communities 2. Ed.  A. Chakrabarti and D. Chakrabarti. Singapore: Springer: 913-25.  

Hackney, F., H. Maughan, S. Desmarais (2016) The Power of Quiet: Re-making Amateur and Professional Textiles Agencies. Journal of Textile Design, Research and Practice, Vol 4. Issue 1: 33-62.

Hackney, F. & H. Maughan, (2016). ‘Stitched Together: Community Learning, Collaborative Making’, Futurescan 3: journal of fashion in higher education. Ed. Helena Britt, Laura Morgan, Kerry Walton. pp. 194-206

Hackney, F. (2016) ‘Getting a Living. Getting a Life: Leonora Eyles, Employment and Agony 1925-1930’. Single authored peer reviewed chapter in Women in Magazines: Research, Representation, Production and Consumption. Editors: Dr Sue Hawkins; Dr Nicola Phillips; Dr Rae Ritchie. London & NY: Routledge.

Hackney, F. (2014) ‘Taking CARE: building community assets through collaborative creative-making’. Making Futures: Interfaces between craft knowledge and design: new opportunities for social innovation and sustainable practice. June 2014.Vol. 3 ISSN 2042-1664. Peer reviewed single authored article (open access): http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/journalvol3/index.html

Hackney, F. (2013) ‘CAREful or CAREless? Collaborative Making and Social Engagement through Craft’, Engage 33: Special issue on Critical Craft, December 2013 pp. 23-37. Peer reviewed Single authored article for online and print publication developed from research for AHRC–funded project: http://cocreatingcare@wordpress.com

Hackney, F. (2013) ‘Quiet Activism & the New Amateur: the power of home and hobby crafts’. Single authored article in peer-reviewed special issue of Design and Culture (Ed.) G. Julier. May/June 2013. pp. 169-194. Developed from paper at Design History Society annual conference: ‘Design Activism’, Barcelona (2011). 

Hackney, F., J. Glynne, V. Minton (Eds.) (2010) Networks of Design (Florida Universal, Publishers. Available in paperback and as an e-book).  The edited collection running to over 300 pages was developed from the international conference Networks of Design for the Design History Society hosted by Dr Hackney at Falmouth University in 2008. 

Hackney, F. ‘”Women are News”: British women’s magazines 1919-1939’, in A. Ardis, & P. Collier (Eds.) Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernism (Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 114-133.

Hackney, F.  ‘”They Opened up a Whole New World”: Narrative, Text and Image in British Women’s Magazines in the 1930s’, in ‘Show/Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image (2007) Working Papers on Design www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/research/tvad/event160905.html pp. 1-24.

Hackney, F. ‘Use Your Hands for Happiness: Home Craft & Make-do-and-mend in British Women’s Magazines in the1920s & 1930s’ (2006) Special Issue on DIY Journal of Design History, Vol. 19 No. 1, Oxford University Press, pp. 24-38. http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/19/1/23?ijkey=5HBjmQVFSjvgr6S&keytype=ref

Hackney, F. Entries on ‘Leonora Eyles’, ‘Ruby M. Ayres’, ‘M. Belloc-Lowndes’ and ‘The Society of Women Writers & Journalists’, in F. Hammill & E. Miskimmin (Eds.) the Encyclopaedia of British Women’s Writing, 1900-50 (Hampshire & NY, Palgrave, 2004).

Hackney, F. Featured Article ‘Magazines, Femininity & Modernity: Researching Magazines’ in Design History Society Newsletter, Nov. 2001.

‘Making Modern Women, Stitch by Stitch: Dressmaking and Women’s Magazines in Britain in the 1920s & 1930s’, in B. Burman (Ed.) The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home dressmaking (Oxford & NY, Berg, 1999), pp. 73-96.

Hackney, F. ‘Pleasures and Responsibilities: The Discourse of Modern Housewifery in Women’s Magazines in the 1930s’ in A. Despard (Ed.) A Woman’s Place, Agder College Research Series No. 12 (Kristiansand, Norway, 1998), pp. 200-219.

Hackney, F. ‘Women at Curwen’ in J. Seddon & S. Worden (Eds.) Women Designing: Redefining Design in Britain between the Wars (Brighton, University of Brighton, 1996), pp. 50-63. The essay has been cited in a number of publications, most recently T. J. Edelstein (Ed.) (2010) Art for All: British Posters for Transport (New Haven, Yale University Press).

Hackney, F. ‘Contemporary Women Artists’ & ‘The Best of the Art Schools’ Women’s Art Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1993